It took nearly dying in a motorcycle accident to get art school drop-out Jason Hanson to paint again. After regaining the ability to walk and most of the function in their hands, they found themselves in an empty St. Louis art studio after quitting a 20-year career in tech. They knew they had to get their nighttime dreams onto canvas before they consumed them. 

Jason’s work explores the liminal space between the dream world and waking life. When they translate dream scenes into life, they reliably contain a message for someone ready to find it. Pushing the societal boundaries that condition and bind us, Jason invites us to accept our whole selves by lifting up the parts of us that we reject, deny, and hide from one another, and ourselves.

Their recent work explores the value of created images against the backdrop of capitalism, AI-generated art, and TikTok culture. Training AI to paint in their own style and generating a lifetime of images in a single night has raised many creative and ethical questions. They are dedicating the next couple of years to learning to work in synergy with AI and finding new ways to package their work.

Jason’s edge as an artist is always to surrender more. The more they surrender to be used by source, the more messages from source flow through them.